Please set the record straight!
 

How long does it take to OFFICIALLY become a FROG! Thanks!

Probably when you decide that this is the place that you will live until you croak.

Disclaimer. I did and I have not turned green but I am more wrinkly than I used to be.

when your boss says you have been downsized

OK - I've moved to TV and I love but I HATE being called a frog. Reality bites I guess !

It is said that the definition of a frog is one who decides to stay until they croak.

Suppose you are one who decides to stay and refuses to croak. Then what do you label that resident? A________________ Please fill in the blank:D

LOL. I guess you could call me a person who takes one day at a time and hopes there are more days left to play. I just find the "frog" concept very depressing. We all die - some sooner and some later - but why build a life here based on the inevitable.

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I think of it in a more positive light. We have found the most WONDERFUL place to live and don't plan on ever moving. Frogs plan on enjoying The Villages every day for the rest of their lives. People become frogs at all different ages.

Newcomer---you become a frog when you get your a-s out of virginia & get down here with the other retirees. Don't forget to bring my sister with you.
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Borrowing from the immortal Juan Luis Pedro Felipo de Huevos Epstein, as he related what it meant to be a Sweathog, "Being a FROG ain't just being in a club, being a FROG is a state of mind."

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There not a day goes by that I'm not thinking about the Villages! I'm there in spirit, believe me! If your golf ball goes astray blame "THE NEWCOMER"!
LOL! Enjoy your day in the Villages!

When you're too old and too sick to even think about moving and you feel a croak coming on, then, and only then, will you get your OFFICIAL frog-croak-badge. For some it doesn't take long and for others it may take a few decades. However, you can speed things up by eating out more, gaining more weight and watching more television. :wine:....:loco:....:jester:

ELF........"Enjoying Lifestyle Forever"

Yeah, if this is heaven, we SHOULD get eternal life! AMERICA'S HEALTHIEST HOMETOWN deserves nothing less.

The Newcomer, you and I must be on the same wavelength. I am so in agreement with you. My next visit to TV starts in 95 days but who is counting?
If the webcams are accurate, the weather is looking good. I hope everyone is having a great day in The Villages!

I think you are not actual a frog until you croak. Lets say you call yourself a "frog" but then you move what are you then? a toad?

Would suggest that we all become an ELF.........it sounds so much better than a FROG

ELF beats FROG hands down - LOL.

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For those of us who came here to live life to the fullest, who hope to stay healthy and long-lived with an active retirement lifestyle, and who where the TV nickname proudly, being a frog is positively ribbeting.

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Becoming a FROG (or an OLF or an ELF) is not a time sensitive issue - it is a brain sensitive issue. You "officially" become a FROG when your brain decides that is the thing to do. Slow thinkers may take awhile to come around, others not so long.

Then.............................
 

THEN.........................................the brain decides to buy a CYV in August 2011 but I'm still not there permanently. Brain says I'm going to be there in VILLAGES permanently but stuck in a VIRGINIA pond. So based on the brain decision and my decision to purchase a CYV I'm a FROG! I wonder how long it takes a FROG to travel 750 miles to get to The Village pond. Wait on it, Wait on it................................................ .....squirrel! LOL!
You all have a wonderful day in The Villages!